Northridge

A Grand by Any Other Name

"Cash up front" is a great term to include in a sales contract, but how do you convince a customer to go for it? Yehoram Uziel, founder of Soligen, in Nor...  Read more

Beef Up Your Disaster Preparedness Plan

If your office were affected by flood, fire, earthquake, or another natural disaster, could you bounce back? Your recovery from a disaster begins with hav...  Read more

Beef Up Your Disaster Preparedness Plan

If your office were affected by flood, fire, earthquake, or another natural disaster, could you bounce back? Your recovery from a disaster begins with hav...  Read more

Customers Can Also Fund You

Customers financed development of new technology in exchange for short-term exclusive use of the product.  Read more

Rewarding Yourself

If all that risk and hard work you weathered in starting a company have begun to pay off and you want to reward yourself -- say, with a snazzy car -- shou...  Read more

Network: October 1992

Network questions and answers.  Read more

Network: November 1989

Network resources.  Read more

Ground Zero: The State of Small Business

Joe Caccesse, a loan officer for the Small Business Administration, hasgotten used to mass disasters. He started out with the SBA in Northridge,California...  Read more

Vancouver Maneuver

Many young companies see Canada's Vancouver Stock Exchange as an attractive place to raise capital.  Read more

Best of the Net: Power Brokers

When it comes to presentation software, most users agree there's one clear standard. We've found some Web-based resources to help you make your point.  Read more

SBA Administrator Defends Hurricane Aid

Nov. 11, 2005 --Critics of the federal aid being given to small businesses along the Gulf Coast are simply expecting too much too soon, U....  Read more

Move Over, Sony

Just when everyone has written off consumer electronics, a few firms are bucking the trend. Can America make computers if it can't make TVs?  Read more

SBA Pours More Money into the Gulf Coast

The Small Business Administration said on Friday that it has approved more than $1 billion in loans to Gulf Coast residents. It's only the third time that...  Read more

Why Every Business Will Be Like Show Business

Study of the network of flexible small businesses that make up Hollywood's entertainment industry.  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more